[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, April 6 - April 19, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, April 6 - April 19, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!

• Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software #software_general
• Motion Planning: Motion Planners: New release of the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), version 1.7.0 #software_motion-planning
• Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets to add? use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

• Events #announcements
• Workshops
• Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation (RSS 2025)
• Navigating Contact Dynamics in Robotics (RSS 2025)
• 3D Vision Language Models (VLMs) for Robotic Manipulation: Opportunities and Challenges (CVPR 2025)
• GRAIL: Generalization in Robotics Manipulation Workshop and Challenges (CVPR 2025)
• Workshop on 3D-LLM/VLA: Bridging Language, Vision and Action in 3D Environments (CVPR 2025)
• Workshop on Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation (PIRA) (CVPR 2025)
• Competitions
• PhyRC: Physical Robotic Caregiving Challenge (ICRA 2025)
• S2R2025: The 4th Robotic Sim2Real Challenge (ICRA 2025)
• Have suggestions for events we should add? use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9

• What's coming up soon?
• IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2025, April 23 - 26, 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!

• Remember to join the Slack channels that pertain to your interests! (e.g., #software_motion-planning, #benchmarking_protocols, etc.)

The COMPARE Slack and website were soft launched recently, promoted mostly to our internal network. Please share the links to join the Slack or Google Group with your colleagues who might be interested!

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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